Journals aren't intended to be pefect and only filled with papers that are never disputed or exposed as wrong.
There are ways of estimating percentages of bad papers, just as there are ways of estimating subsets of other populations.
This is science working as intended - the good reproducable work advances on the strength of the good papers and the bad papers fall away from lack of follow on.
There are ways of estimating percentages of bad papers, just as there are ways of estimating subsets of other populations.
This is science working as intended - the good reproducable work advances on the strength of the good papers and the bad papers fall away from lack of follow on.